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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS North Platte, NE

June 22, 1994Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1994, 4:24 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 1994, 4:24 PM CDT (21:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1994, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 15 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1994-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 197 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1994-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
197 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
798 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 22, 1:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
NEZ023-221945-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
152 PM CDT WED JUN 22 1994

AT 140 PM CDT AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS
AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL HAD MOVED INTO NORTHWEST GRANT COUNTY...80 MILES
NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE.  THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT
15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF ASHBY...HYANNIS AND
WHITMAN UNTIL 3PM CDT OR 2PM MDT.

PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD SEEK SHELTER AS IT PASSES.

POWER

The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 2:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGrant, Hooker56 min
Jun 22, 2:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGrant, Hooker62 min
Jun 22, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln56 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.